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== Births ==
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Abraham-Louis Breguet]], Swiss [[horologist]], inventor (d. [[1823]]) 
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[John Aikin]], English doctor and writer (d. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)|title=The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIqa-7dx_N0C&pg=PR43|date=1 January 1994|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1528-7|pages=43}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Johann Elert Bode]], German astronomer (d. [[1826]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Eugenio Espejo]], Ecuadorian scientist (d. [[1795]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Justin Morgan]], American horse breeder and composer (d. [[1798]])
[[File:Johann Daniel Donat, Emperor Leopold II in the Regalia of the Golden Fleece (1806).png|thumb|right|110px|[[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]]]]
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Moore Colby|author2=Talcott Williams|title=The New International Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr8rAQAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Dodd, Mead|pages=788}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Judith van Dorth]], Dutch [[Orangism (Netherlands)|Orangist]] (d. [[1799]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Michele Troja]], Italian physician (d. [[1827]]) 
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Rose Bertin]], French fashion designer (d. [[1813]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[John Paul Jones]], American naval captain (d. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Paul Jones|title=Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=El0SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11|year=1845|publisher=Walker & Gillis|pages=11–}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Coke (bishop)|Thomas Coke]], first [[United Methodist Church|American Methodist]] [[Bishop]] (d. [[1814]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Jean-François Rewbell]], French politician (d. [[1807]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Caleb Brewster]], Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1827]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Anna Seward]], English writer (d. [[1809]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paula R. Feldman|title=British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg6Jn410aCIC&pg=PA647|date=19 January 2001|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6640-1|pages=647}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Gottfried August Bürger]], German poet (d. [[1794]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[François Tourte]], French musical instrument maker (d. [[1835]])
** [[Francis Salvador]], American patriot (d. [[1776]])
** [[Anne Pépin]], Senegalese Signara (d. [[1837]])
** [[Grigory Shelikhov]], Russian merchant (d. [[1795]])